Research Paper Volume 13, Issue 14 pp 18310—18330

Figure 1. Elevated BMI1 in GC-chemoresistant bladder cancer conferred poor prognosis. (A) BMI1 mRNA expression in bladder cancer tissues of patients partial response to chemotherapy versus patients complete response to chemotherapy from TCGA-BLCA database. (B) Relapse-free survival of patients in TCGA-BLCA dataset with low versus high levels of BMI1 mRNA. (C) IHC analysis of BMI1 protein expression in bladder cancer tissues of patients resistant to GC chemotherapy and that sensitive to GC chemotherapy, magnification, ×200 & ×400. (D) Statistical quantification of the IHC score of BMI1 staining in bladder cancer specimens from patients resistant versus sensitive to GC chemotherapy. (E) Relapse-free survival of patients with bladder cancer with low versus high BMI1 expression. (F) Progression-free survival of patients with bladder cancer with low versus high BMI1 expression. *P < 0.05. GC: Cisplatin and Gemcitabine; TCGA: The Cancer Genome Atlas; BLCA: Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma; IHC: Immunohistochemistry; TPM: Transcripts Per Million.